The weight of things / Marianne Fritz ; translated and with an afterword by Adrian Nathan West.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Fritz, Marianne, 1948-2007, author.

Contributor:

• West, Adrian Nathan, translator, writer of afterword.
• Edward Zeigler Davis Fund.

Standardized Title:

• Schwerkraft der Verhältnisse. English

Language:

• English
• German

Subjects (All):

• Families--Germany--Fiction.
• World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
• Families.
• Germany.
• Austrian fiction.

Genre:

• Fiction.
• Novels.

Physical Description:

138 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

St. Louis, MO : Dorothy, a publishing project, [2015]

Summary:

THE WEIGHT OF THINGS is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only translatable book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007)... Yet in this, her first novel, we discover not an eccentric fluke of literary nature but rather a brilliant and masterful satirist, philosophically minded yet raging with anger and wit, who under the guise of a domestic horror story manages to expose the hypocrisy and deep abiding cruelties running parallel, over time, through the society and the individual minds of a century.

Notes:

"Originally published in German as Die Schwerkraft der Verhältnisse by S. Fischer Verlag, 1978." -- title page verso.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Zeigler Davis Fund.

ISBN:

• 0989760774
• 9780989760775

OCLC:

918285956

Publisher Number:

99965356335

Online:

The Edward Zeigler Davis Fund Home Page